"Cease this abomination at once!"

Professor Gnarly's irritated voice echoed throughout the whole area. The students, startled at the pure anger in his voice, began to straighten up. The fear and panic from their eyes were evident as they scrambled back to their respective seats.

Professor Gnarly looked at the misbehaving group of children with deep annoyance in his eyes as he went out of his cloud.

"I left for a few moments and this is what happens?! This is utterly disappointing! To think that in my cla.s.s, a cla.s.s for law, social morals, and etiquette, you lot would show such behavior! All of you will be banned from taking my exam for the next two months! And in these two months, I will have an exam every other day to straighten all of you up!"

Then, as soon as Professor Gnarly finished, he immediately casted a spell. And when he stopped his casting, a pillar of white and glowing symbols suddenly erupted around him. Those floating symbols circled him in a swift manner that it looked nearly like a tornado. And after a few seconds, the floating symbols dashed out and made their way to every student in the vicinity. The symbols was plastered to the students' legs, heads, arms, torso, and even their feet. And after it stuck to their skin fully, the mark slowly dimmed down until it can no longer be seen by the naked eye, making the students panic at the sight.

But Professor Gnarly decided to appease them as he explained the foreign spell to them.

"A Marking curse. That's what you call that kind of spell. It is something that only the caster or someone more powerful than the caster can nullify. With that, I'll be able to know who isn't allowed to take my test because of this preposterous behavior. So, there will certainly be no way for anyone in this room to ever take the test until the mark gets removed after two months."

Raghnall snickered at himself as he casted his best invisibility spell. Since he was quite a distance away and he immediately recognized the spell that old man was casting, he had enough time to cast a spell unlike the rest of the students.

The good thing about his invisibility spell is that his presence is completely masked. Even the smallest magic particles around him are hidden. But, if someone casted a clairvoyance spell that is stronger than his spell, then he'll absolutely be found out. So, he just prayed to the Supreme G.o.d not to let that old man use it.

Meanwhile, the symbol that was supposed to fly towards his stopped midway and twirled around, as if trying to find him. Then, after a few rounds of twirling around, the symbol lost its glow and it disappeared in thin air.

When Raghnall saw that it was gone, he heaved a sigh of relief.

That was close. If he were to get marked, that would obviously give him out.

Trying to calm his heavily beating heart, he looked towards the center of the area to figure out what was happening next.

In the back of his mind, he couldn't help but notice that the situation now was funnily similar to what happened in the entrance ceremony when he met Inna.

And with that thought, he let out a small laugh.

Seriously. Wherever that girl goes, chaos surely follows.

Meanwhile, Professor Gnarly faced the three remaining contestants that he made sure were not marked by his spell. He looked them up, trying to see if his choice was the right one.

Then, he sighed with great dismay.

One had too much ego.

One had too much greed.

The other one had insufficient grit.

But then again, because of the disturbance in the exam and the involvement of a student audience, he had to abide by the rules.

So, clearing his throat, he had no choice but to announce his decision.

"Now that everyone has decided to settled down, I would like to say a few words to address this problem."

"Since there has been a major disturbance in the exams, as per written in the rules, I would have to stop the exam despite it being ongoing and fail all of the students taking it. But since the perpetrators are both now unrelated to the said exam, it would be quite unfair to these three innocent students if i were to fail them immediately. Hence, after asking for permission from Elder Fang, I found it wise to postpone it instead to continue on another day. But this time, the audience would simply be just me and Elder Fang to avoid a repeat of what happened."

The crowd nodded in agreement with Professor Gnarly's choice. And the three students, Galen, Herad, and Drona, couldn't help but smile in happiness.

That means that they didn't fail it yet! There is still hope!

But then, Professor Gnarly cleared his throat again to catch everyone's attention. He looked over towards the three gleeful students with a sarcastic sneer.

"But I would have to warn you. Elder Fang is stricter than I am when it comes to exams so don't get too happy as of yet. Also, I will be announcing the time and day of the exam through your dorm's speakers. And if you are unable to attend on time, it would be an immediate failure."

The three gulped audibly after hearing it, the hidden glee in their eyes slightly dimming down. But they still bowed in gratefulness as they spoke together.

"We are thankful for Elder Gnarly's benevolence!"

Elder Gnarly barely took a glance at them as he addressed the crowd.

"Now, I officially announce this test to have ended and request all students to please leave the premises. I will no longer entertain any questions and I will seal off this domain after a few moments."

With that, the students slowly got up by their seats and began to leave as they mumbled subtle complaints about the markings. And while the students were leaving, Raghnall took it as a signal to go back to the gates again. So, with a hastening spell, he dashed towards the empty gates as he casted his illusion spell.

While he was pretending to be Favian, he noticed that the two, Galen and Herad, didn't leave the area yet. The rest of the higher cla.s.s students were already pa.s.sing through the gates to leave but he failed to see those two leave.

What are they up to now?